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Sunday, October 21, 2012

The pink in my hair tips my hat to a friend who does not
wish to be named. A breast cancer survivor, it’s in her rearview mirror. But
the disease is before us as is the Leviathan waiting to swallow groundbreaking
treatments, cures and restoration.

Her amazing smile can light up Manhattan, always has and
thanks for science, love and G-D, she will sparkle for many, many years. For her trials, she loves her newly
acquired 20-year-old “perkies”. Breasts are replaceable. Women are not.

The president who claims to be guardian of your ladyparts has
placed your breasts on the chopping block of Obamacare. If Obama is re-elected,
a diagnosis via mammogram is a crapshoot. The 15 unelected IPAB panel will
start mammograms later, and dole them out less frequently. The wait time for
both mammograms and start of treatment will be significantly delayed. And
insurance paid reconstruction will be a thing of the past. Without
reconstructive surgery, Happy wife, happy life can take an ominous turn. Cancer
might occupy one patient in a home, but lays claim to several victims with each
case. A bleak outlook indeed for what was once vaunted as one of the most
curable cancers.

According to board certified plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Fox
(who did not treat my friend), reconstructive surgery is a boon. “The cancer
diagnosis and treatment are devastating to most women. The disfigurement and
fear of loss of sexual attractiveness to their husbands are an avoidable misery.
Taking that out of the equation, women do much better,” he said.

Thanks to the
Dr. Foxes of he world, modern science, research and a free market, the destructive
removed and replace in toto. They did their job, now she finishes hers. When
patient and doctor join hands and tell disease, ‘not yet’, there’s no room for fifteen
unelected non-medical bureaucrats in this ballet.

Cancer should not be politicized; women like my friend
deserve to be held far from the fray and the pots I stir. But I will not stand by and allow such
light to be snuffed out. Celebrate and pay tribute in October, but remember in
November. Peddling free birth control is not woman friendly. Staying away from
women, our ladyparts and our doctors IS woman friendly.

Vote for women, Vote for my friend, her millions of sisters,
those with us and those not. Vote
for yourselves and the children and men that love you.